Sanjena Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers (Penguin Press), which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post and a Best Book of 2021 by NPR. Her short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories, the Atlantic, Conjunctions, One Story, and more. She’s written nonfiction for the New York Times, the Drift, the Yale Review, and newyorker.com, among others. Her second novel, Goddess Complex, is forthcoming from Penguin Press in March 2025.